How To Install popt on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install popt on Fedora 34.
What is popt
Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules. popt 1.18 4.fc34 i686 61 k popt-1.18-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora C library for parsing command line parameters https MIT Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules.
We can use yum or dnf to install popt on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install popt.
Install popt on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install popt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install popt
Install popt on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install popt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install popt
How To Uninstall popt on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the popt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove popt
popt Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/popt.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/4dd8566308125fdf542a36c8ed65d0027fa1f8
/usr/lib/libpopt.so.0
/usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/popt
/usr/share/doc/popt/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/popt
/usr/share/licenses/popt/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/etc/popt.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/987ca69f134b6b74dca25f2655f1d0c4fc7feb
/usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/popt
/usr/share/doc/popt/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/popt
/usr/share/licenses/popt/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo
References
- [popt website](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/popt/ https://github.com/rpm-software-management/popt/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install popt on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
